On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 20:15 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 11/13/2004 02:06 AM, Satish Balay wrote: > > - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl' > > instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files. > > What is the difference between using several lines of local mirrors with > baseurl, and using a local mirrorlist (as in > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/) consisting of local > mirrors with mirrorlist? Any reason chosing one over the other? A local mirrorlist can be maintained in one place (e.g. on a local web server) whereas editing local yum repo files would have to be done on each machine if you had several to maintain. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
